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A Small City In Utah Has Been Calling On Its Local Hipster Musicians To Give Christmas Music A New Sound
It’s So Underground You Haven’t Even Heard Of It
Oh come, all ye faithful, and lend me your ears. There is something very dark, evil and wrong among us, and I need the Christmas-music-loving world to know about it. And that very wrong thing is Christmas Radio.
To listen to a radio station that plays Christmas tunes from the day after Thanksgiving until New Year's Eve, you might recognize a few things. Sorry, I mean to say, you might recognize a few songs. Because they are the same (and only) few songs that get played ad nauseam every single year, nonstop for five weeks as if there wasn’t a Christmas canon full of classic and contemporary renditions of both classic and contemporary, even original Christmas and/or winter-inspired music.
CHRISTMAS MUSIC HURTS
To listen to Christmas radio is to know one important truth: Christmas music is terrible. Well, that and the fact that George Michael *never* learns from his mistakes because he keeps giving his heart away to someone who doesn’t turn out to be very special. Every. Single. Year. And despite his promises of this Christmas to give it to someone who won’t just regift it the very next day, sure as…
